Africa-Press – Angola. The poetic anthology “A series of p(r)o(bl)emas”, by the arts collective Mwinda Kubata, has just been placed on the national literary market, as part of the celebrations of March 8, International Women’s Day.
The work has 100 poems by the poets Dito, Milton Magdala, Sílvio Cristóvão, Ylson Menezes and Widralino, with the artists Oksanna Dias and Imaculada Tchitanga as illustrators.
It is the first work of the Mwinda Kubata arts collective and the initial idea was to unite poets and illustrators for the same purpose, the collection of a series of illustrated poems, which are also the mirror of a series of ignored problems. In addition to these, designer Elias Focus produced the cover.
The book is a work that was conceived in 2020, shortly after the Mwinda Kubata arts collective began to function as such. Angola was experiencing the first period of global quarantine, after registering the first cases of Covid-19, and it was a time when people were actually starting to have more time for themselves.
Widralino, one of the members of the Mwinda Kubata art collective and mentor of the project, acknowledged the following in the presentation text: “It is not easy to deal with people and at some point I stopped paying attention to the project to focus on personal matters, and thus the period of production of the book dragged on. The artists who are part of the work, namely the plastic artists Oksanna Dias and Imaculada Tchitanga, and the poets Milton Magdala, Sílvio Cristóvão, Dito and Ylson Menezes, are the ones who from the outset showed themselves to be available, and clearly we had to respect the time of each one for the compilation of the poems and the term of the illustrations”.
He added that “this process was much faster for me because I had just organized my poems when I had the idea for the book and I already had almost all the photos in files. where, rather than focusing on the various latitudes, the artists show their impact on personal life, as well as it ends up being an incursion into the personality of each poet, their feelings and emotions, which are the problems they most struggle with”.
Andrade Lino “Widralino” clarified “it is, however, an experimental (digital) version, and in the future the book may be released in another guise, since the current edition was intended to think about our time, not wanting us to be doomed to possible bureaucracy for the release in a physical format, also taking into account the little (or almost no) financial provision”.
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